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"There will be no downside to Brexit, only a considerable upside" David Davis (10th October, 2016). "The day after we vote to leave we hold all the cards and we can choose the path we want." Michael Gove (9 April, 2016). "There will continue to be free trade, and access to the single market". Boris Johnson (26th June, 2016) "Getting out of the EU can be quick and easy - the UK holds most of the cards". John Redwood (17th July, 2016) "To me, Brexit is Easy". Nigel Farage (20th September, 2016). "The free trade agreement that we will have to do with European Union should be one of the easiest in human history". Liam Fox (20th July, 2017). Going back to immigration issue, which is likely to have been the main factor in many peoples minds when opting to vote Leave - clearly if you have concerns about immigration you are not automatically racist. However, I can talk from my own experience of speaking to friends, colleagues, family members that an element of racism played a large part in their decisions. I can remember having to explain on numerous occasions that leaving the EU would not stop people from Africa or India coming to the UK.

The whole mess could have been avoided if Cameron had realised that the threat from UKIP was not as bad as he feared and that Labour heartlands all over the country were losing support to Farage and co too. Increasingly can see a 2nd referendum being arranged and the last 2 years being a giant waste of time and energy. 2 years that could have been spent trying to fix Social care, the justice system etc.

I would like to point out that although the Premier League has many faults, at least it is competitive. Compare it to the Bundesliga (Bayern have won the last 6 Championships); La Liga (since 2000-01; only Valencia (twice) and Atletico Madrid have managed to break the dominance of Real and Barca) and Serie A (where Juventus have won the last 7 championships). Even with Man City's recent dominance, they are going to be significantly challenged by Liverpool this season, with any one in the League able to beat the top 6 - even Saints (although it has been a while).

Plenty have over the past few years. Clearly a mistake to sign him and for that fee. (Also, to be pendantic, Danny Ings will become our record signing)

Stupid article. As others have said it applies to all but the top 6 teams (and you could even argue everyone but Citeh, Utd, Liverpool and Chelski). The cost to the club if we had 'gone for it' and failed would have been catastrophic! Financial fair play rules mean that unless you have a incredibly rich multi-billionaire/state aid (see Man City) then you cannot compete with the established top six teams on a long term basis. Even Arsenal and Spurs have struggled. Even if we had managed to get into the Champions League in the Leicester Championship winning season, we wouldn't have been able to sustain it unless we totally went bonkers with spending. Our model changed when the supporters got p*ssed off by selling our best players. We then started to give long term deal to average players (who were never attracting the attention of the big 4/5 clubs) and not adequately replacing people like Pelle. I know we all want Saints to win every match and trophy going, but we have to be realistic. The Premier League and the disparity in the clubs is huge in terms of spending power. I prefer to have a football team I can support, preferably in the Premier League rather than watch them all into admin and spend decades in League One (at best).

Unfortunately due to not going to as many games as I would have liked to over the years my 5 are going to be pretty random: 1. Gabbi's equaliser at Wembley 2. Lambert v Pompey (in FA Cup) 3. Le Tissier v Villa (1994 - away) 4. Fonte v Coventry 5. Hooiveld v Coventry I would like to add the following goals which I went proper ape-sh*t over either in the pub or at home 1. Long v Liverpool 2. Gabbi v Swansea 3. Rasiak v Derby 4. Chaplow v United (FA Cup) 5. Ormerod v Watford (FA Cup)

It may be tedious or boring to you, but often it is precisely this apathy that allows things to become normalised. We are a long way from the historical parallels that I have seen mentioned on this thread, but clearly there is a problem in the Labour party and particularly in the Cult that has developed around Corbyn.

Wins against Brighton and Palace, how is everyone’s mood?

Bielsa, for all his brilliance and Leeds' early form, does have a tendency to kill off his teams by March. Saturday-Wednesday-Saturday will eventually catch up with them. A couple of injuries will only thin out the squad further. Watch them implode, end up in the playoffs and lose at Wembley.

We moved away from our business model, mainly due to fans (understandably) getting fed up at selling all our best players to Liverpool. To counter this we offered long term contracts to players with little re-sale value - blocking moves to Wanyama, Schneiderlin and VVD (although we relented the following season) sent a message to potential players that we aren't the same club as before ie) offering a launch pad to a top 4 team. Our squad cost £300,000,000 - but this has been financed by players sales that must get close to that amount. The thing is that wins against Brighton and Palace change the mood drastically. You can't legislate for a player doing something stupid like Hojberg, overall the style of football is much better than last year; clearly Hughes' is trying to find his best 11 but I am not worried at the moment.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-facebook-state-owned-social-media-bbc-iplayer-privacy-labour-public-ownership-a8504151.html What world does he live in? Not everything can be solved by the State!

Well after yesterday, I can't decide if it will be paying off a porn star and Playboy model and breaking campaign finance law or Collusion with a foreign power (Russia) to alter the democratic process of the election or obstruction of justice that will bring an end to Trump's presidency. My guess at the moment will be the obstruction of justice, caused by the campaign finance violation. Everyone else will go down for Russia.

The crucial bit is Politician. Politics is the game of power. He currently doesn’t have it. If he added his weight behind a second referendum he would pick up enough votes to comfortably win the next election. I agree the cultish element are very naive to think that he is anything other than anti-EU (like the good socialist he is). I am fully aware of his past views and beliefs, but currently the only way that he can realistically win the next election is by supporting a second referendum. He wouldn’t even need to campaign for it - it literally is as simple as pushing the Government into a position where they have to go back to the people. It so blindingly obvious, but he is incompetent as a Politician.

The Morning Star (that bastion of the Mainstream media...oh wait) has listed all the events and trips that Jezza 'forgot' to declare. Of course all of these could have been paid by himself, but trips to Mexico don't come cheap! Without wanting to cross over to the Brexit thread, I heard Barry Gardner - another dreadfully weak shadow minister - get himself into knots about Labour's position on Brexit. He was a vocal remainer and has repeatedly stated that the short to medium term economic outlook is bleak outside of the EU, even more so with no deal. But he is stuck following the apathy and indifference of Corbyn. I must have missed the moment that democracy is all about one vote and the people aren't allowed to change their f*cking minds!!! If Jezza actually was a competent politician, he would have identified the opportunity to get behind a 'People's vote' and screw the Government. But he isn't and he hasn't. In the end, Brexit will finish him off. The younger voters who flocked to him with his 'Everything will be free' nonsense will become disenchanted and remember his inaction. The Tories won't benefit directly, because they simply won't vote- but they will get back in because of the core support who do.

I don't care who starts it, but I am going to be thoroughly disappointed if we don't hear the following chant at the next home game aimed at Sammy Saint "He's coming for you, he's coming for yooooouuu, Bobby Madely, he's coming for you!" Twitter is wonderful at times.

To be fair when you consider the company he keeps, that probably could be arranged.

Obviously this is awful and horrific, but when ever I see the Popular Front I always think of Monty Python... "People's Front of Judea, Splitters...and the Popular People's Front..." "Who are they?" "He's over there!....Splitters!"

On the basis that you can get live streams of the work being carried out both inside and outside of the stadium, I think he is safe to stick a few pics on social media! Months away from being completed; the City game now clashes with the NFL and they might have to play at Twickenham. Utter joke.

This may end up being the bigger problem for him. Lord Sheikh (he who wants Boris reprimanded for his comments about the Burkha) declared his visit to the same event on the register of interests, stating it was paid for by Tunisian government. The threshold for reporting is £300. The only way around it is if you paid for the trip yourself, or if it was paid by UK funds. Labour have stated that the event was paid for by the event and conference organisers. The best I can come up with in terms of possible organisers is: https://www.csis.org/regions/middle-east/africa/north-africa (courtesy of Jezza's own piece in The Morning Star). Well CSIS are based in Washington DC, so would still need to be declared under members interests. Is it likely that the trip cost less than £300? Is it likely that Jezza paid for all or part of the costs himself - if so, why don't Labour confirm this? Even if the costs were met by CSIS - they still would need to be declared as they are based in the US. If CSIS didn't fund it, who the hell did? Why would the Tunisian gov. offr to pay for Lord Sheikh but not Jezza who is far more supportive of the PLO and Palestine, and couldn't care less if he is pictured with Hamas (he has called them 'Friends' previously). Ian Paisley Jnr has recently been suspended for 30 days for breaching the rule on paid advocacy - ie) lobbying for Sri Lanka after getting loads of free luxury holidays. You could easily argue that if Jezza is advocating Palestinian rights (however justified) on the back of receiving a free holiday to Tunisia, is he not breaking the same rule. I admit it is a stretch, but it doesn't look good nonetheless.

Amazed it has taken this long for someone to post about this mornings incident. All very odd. Thankfully it seems no one seriously injured.

For those who are going, I am driving up independently from Gloucester and looking to have a pint or two in the Brewdog bar (Manolis Yard, 8 Colquitt St, Liverpool L1 4DE) before heading up to Kirkdale on the MerseyRail. (Staying with family in Wallasey, so should be an interesting evening, especially if we win!). Looking to be in the pub for 11.30 - midday. Personally think we have to start with four or five in midfield and keep two upfront. If we invite pressure, we will get stuffed. Need to take the game to them.

A two state solution is the only way to end the ongoing conflict - however it is dependent on a number of very unlikely factors. Firstly, the Palestinian Authority have to clamp down and stop rocket attacks. (I don't necessarily agree that it should be the Palestinians who act first, but realistically that is the only way it is going to work). If they can achieve some sort of extended ceasefire, it will increase the pressure on Israel to finally do something about illegal settlers - the State won't do anything if they feel that they are being pressured by Palestinian violence. If Israel doesn't tackle illegal settlers, it would need the international community led by the USA to impose sanctions etc to make it a moral issue - the key will be restraining the Arab world from inflammatory rhetoric; almost abstaining from the debate. Finally, there would need to be a change in public opinion in Israel. Currently not enough people are willing to give up land or compromise and there is always the spectre of the assassination of Yitsak Rabin. Basically a hell of a lot of things would have to fall into place and most of them are currently unthinkable. I don't know enough about the next generation of Israeli leaders and politicians; whether they are more liberal or more hawkish than their current counterparts. Regarding Corbyn and the Tunisian wreath placing ceremony - even if you take his denials at face value; isn't just another example of his poor judgement - the reason for the Israeli attack on the PLO compound can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wooden_Leg. I am perfectly prepared to debate the rights/wrongs and proportionality of the Israeli response but it needs to be seen in the context of the time. The whole thing is a giant mess and on the weekend that polls suggest that support for Remain is now ahead of Leave (especially in Labour supporting heartlands in the North) and a potential easy political win is available - Corbyn, Momentum and his cabal are paralysed by accusations of anti-semitism.

When he scores, The Itchen sings Danny, Danny Ings When he scores, The Chapel....shhhhhhhhh

Wait until March and see where they are. Notoriously his teams often blow up due to the demands he places on them.

Can’t take any credit for this. Courtesy of twitter Danny Ings He's come home to the place he belongs scoring goals for Southampton Danny Ings He's come home! To the tune of country roads